DRESS CODE FOR TRICYCLE DRIVERS–Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez (center) receives representatives of tricycle drivers led by Amador Tagana, president of the Federation of Associations of Tricycle Operators and Drivers of Dagupan (FATODA) in her office, after a committee hearing in the Sangguniang Palungsod on a measure seeking the adoption of a…
THE battle begins. Following the recent reorganization of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) in Dagupan, the new minority is proving it will not simply kowtow to the new majority in matters of the city. An ordinance, poised to be approved by the new majority prescribing a dress code for tricycle drivers…
A VOLUNTEER broadcast journalist who worked under Sixth District Board Member Ranjit Shahani has filed a complaint on Friday against his former boss before the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor in Lingayen. Cesar Mendoza of San Carlos City, a volunteer for Aksyon Radio, accused Shahani of estafa, falsification of public…
TWO employees of the Dagupan City government and another person caught using illegal drugs were arrested by the police for drug use in the afternoon of July 26 in a house on Fernandez Street. Supt. Romeo Caramat Jr, city police chief, identified the arrested persons as Perfecto Velasquez Jr., 50,…
NEW CAMPAIGN VS. LOOSE FIREARMS LINGAYEN—Newly-installed Police Provincial Officer-in-Charge Mariano Luis Verzosa has launched a new campaign against loose firearms as part of the program to minimize crimes, especially those perpetrated by motorcycle-riding-in-tandem hitmen (MRTH). Verzosa said the campaign is directed against criminal elements, private armed groups and other threat…
REORGANIZATION OR NOT VICE Mayor Belen Fernandez, though clipped of much of her powers under the new rules in the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) in a cunning shift of loyalties in the council, has assured Dagupeños that she will continue to look after the city’s welfare. “I am still here to…
LANDMARK PROVINCIAL LAWS–Governor Amado Espino Jr., with members of the provincial board led by Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Calimlim around him, signs Wednesday the newly-passed Pangasinan Environmental Code and the Pangasinan Health and Sanitation Code, two landmark ordinances seeking to protect the province’s environment and the health and sanitation of…
LINGAYEN–Governor Amado T. Espino Jr. signed into law on Wednesday two major regulatory ordinances passed by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) that are expected to bolster the provincial government’s campaign for a balanced ecology that will ensure a healthy environment for Pangasinenses. Signed in the presence of SP members led by Vice…
LINGAYEN—The Provincial Health Office (PPO) has expressed alarm over the rising cases of dengue which already killed two children and downed 541 people from May to July this year. Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, said this is 15 per cent higher than the number of cases registered in…
IN LONDON OLYMPICS DANTE de Castro, a native of the island town of Anda, is headed for the Olympic Games in London. De Castro, a professor at the University of Luzon’s Criminology Department, has been chosen to be one of the 35 boxing referee-judges for the grand sporting event scheduled…
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